Our Place Nashville
Programs
Budget
$40,000.00
Description
Our Place Nashville is creating opportunity by partnering with a broad spectrum of groups. Our primary partners are two of Nashville's nonprofits that focus on providing affordable housing: Urban Housing Solutions and Woodbine Community Organization. We have two Friendship Houses up and running, with three more to open by mid-2020. In addition to having graduate students live alongside our friends with developmental disabilities, we are going to begin integrating seniors into our model, with the seniors providing the same kind of support and friendship the graduate students do -- and all doing so, of course, on a volunteer basis.
Program Areas Served
None
$40,000.00
Description
Our Place Nashville is creating opportunity by partnering with a broad spectrum of groups. Our primary partners are two of Nashville's nonprofits that focus on providing affordable housing: Urban Housing Solutions and Woodbine Community Organization. We have two Friendship Houses up and running, with three more to open by mid-2020. In addition to having graduate students live alongside our friends with developmental disabilities, we are going to begin integrating seniors into our model, with the seniors providing the same kind of support and friendship the graduate students do -- and all doing so, of course, on a volunteer basis.
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$30,000.00
Description
Our Place Nashville comes alongside families and their loved ones with developmental disabilities and provides support on how best to prepare their adult sons and daughters for interdependent living. Instilling the belief early on that interdependent living is possible, while helping to provide basic skills in self-care, cooking, entering a community, or volunteering is central to preparing a friend for interdependent living. Individuals with developmental disabilities are proven assets to employers. We are communicating that message to prospective employers, helping to open doors to employment. We are partnering with a number of other non-profit groups in this effort as we have the same goal of equipping the employee and the employer so that both can have a rewarding experience. This involves talking with small (and some large) business owners in Davidson County and Greater Nashville, from The Nashville Sounds to the Nashville Humane Society and Saddle Up!
Program Areas Served
None
$30,000.00
Description
Our Place Nashville comes alongside families and their loved ones with developmental disabilities and provides support on how best to prepare their adult sons and daughters for interdependent living. Instilling the belief early on that interdependent living is possible, while helping to provide basic skills in self-care, cooking, entering a community, or volunteering is central to preparing a friend for interdependent living. Individuals with developmental disabilities are proven assets to employers. We are communicating that message to prospective employers, helping to open doors to employment. We are partnering with a number of other non-profit groups in this effort as we have the same goal of equipping the employee and the employer so that both can have a rewarding experience. This involves talking with small (and some large) business owners in Davidson County and Greater Nashville, from The Nashville Sounds to the Nashville Humane Society and Saddle Up!
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$20,000.00
Description
Our Place Nashville provides weekly life skill classes on Monday evenings. These classes meet at a Metro Parks community center. Each class has volunteer instructors from the community. Topics are varied, both serious and fun, and attendance varies, giving attendees the chance to meet and become friends with new people. We have a weekly book club that meets on Wednesday afternoons at a neighborhood cafe/bakery, again led by community volunteers. Our Place Nashville has partnered with another nonprofit that provides our residents with weekly arts-related workshops, meeting an area church with showcase performances at a music venue every two months. We have weekly community dinners at each Friendship House. We also sponsor social events, from outings to the zoo, cook-outs, movie and game nights, volunteer opportunities as a group (e.g., monthly neighborhood clean-up), and seasonal parties.
Program Areas Served
None
$20,000.00
Description
Our Place Nashville provides weekly life skill classes on Monday evenings. These classes meet at a Metro Parks community center. Each class has volunteer instructors from the community. Topics are varied, both serious and fun, and attendance varies, giving attendees the chance to meet and become friends with new people. We have a weekly book club that meets on Wednesday afternoons at a neighborhood cafe/bakery, again led by community volunteers. Our Place Nashville has partnered with another nonprofit that provides our residents with weekly arts-related workshops, meeting an area church with showcase performances at a music venue every two months. We have weekly community dinners at each Friendship House. We also sponsor social events, from outings to the zoo, cook-outs, movie and game nights, volunteer opportunities as a group (e.g., monthly neighborhood clean-up), and seasonal parties.
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$5,000.00
Description
By providing the opportunity for graduate students to live with individuals with developmental disabilities, Our Place Nashville is creating change agents. These are men and women who go across the country when they graduate, knowing first-hand all of the gifts this marginalized population brings to the table as well as wanting to help others - from parishioners to colleagues to students - celebrate these individuals. We speak at churches and conferences, both in and out of Nashville, as well as consulting with other nonprofits wanting to do similar work.
Program Areas Served
None
$5,000.00
Description
By providing the opportunity for graduate students to live with individuals with developmental disabilities, Our Place Nashville is creating change agents. These are men and women who go across the country when they graduate, knowing first-hand all of the gifts this marginalized population brings to the table as well as wanting to help others - from parishioners to colleagues to students - celebrate these individuals. We speak at churches and conferences, both in and out of Nashville, as well as consulting with other nonprofits wanting to do similar work.
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$25,000.00
Description
Running Our Place Nashville requires creating possibility for new housing, raising funds, meeting with prospective residents and their families, managing volunteers and interns, responding to inquiries, speaking engagements, attending conferences/workshops, developing relationships and partnerships, providing support to students and friends living in our Friendship Houses, maintaining social media, and administrative work. It involves keeping records, banking, accounting, printing, mailing, creating marketing materials and giving interviews. Of late, it means expanding our portfolio to include seniors, and creating the criteria and supports needed to include this population in our model. Our Place Nashville also spends a good amount of time building new relationships and nurturing ongoing relationships -- these relationships become partnerships, and partnerships are the cornerstone of all parts of our work.
Program Areas Served
None
$25,000.00
Description
Running Our Place Nashville requires creating possibility for new housing, raising funds, meeting with prospective residents and their families, managing volunteers and interns, responding to inquiries, speaking engagements, attending conferences/workshops, developing relationships and partnerships, providing support to students and friends living in our Friendship Houses, maintaining social media, and administrative work. It involves keeping records, banking, accounting, printing, mailing, creating marketing materials and giving interviews. Of late, it means expanding our portfolio to include seniors, and creating the criteria and supports needed to include this population in our model. Our Place Nashville also spends a good amount of time building new relationships and nurturing ongoing relationships -- these relationships become partnerships, and partnerships are the cornerstone of all parts of our work.
Program Areas Served
None
CEO/Executive Director/Board Comments
| In the non-profit world of intellectual and developmental disabilities, it takes a village to make things happen. It is in partnership with others - whether they are other non-profits, city or state government offices, institutions of higher learning, foundations, small businesses, corporations or churches - that progress is made. By pooling resources and working together, by not replicating each other's work, by cooperating with each other, challenges can become manageable. It is this willingness to cooperate that is the driving force behind change in Nashville. Our Place Nashville, for example, is exploring merger options to strengthen sustainability and succession objectives. Our work has grown by leaps and bounds. We have been awarded two Barnes Housing Trust Fund grants, the most recent one for $2M in March 2020. These grants, along with our partners in the affordable housing community, have enabled us to change the landscape for housing options available to adults with developmental disabilities in middle Tennessee. But as the number of people we serve grows, we want to guarantee services for the long-term by formally partnering with another Nashville non-profit, one with longer roots than we have. As a young non-profit incorporated only in June 2015, we have financial challenges with raising general operation support. Even that, however, is beginning to change, with one of the city's biggest music companies and several of the city's movers and shakers expressing their desire to develop some long-term relationships with Our Place Nashville. We believe spreading the word about our work, and letting people know that our services are available to anyone in need in the IDD community, is creating new friends and supporters. Because our success makes Nashville a more attractive destination for businesses and their workers, and because our work will be needed more and more as the population here ages, we believe the need for Our Place Nashville's services will only grow. |
